John Petts; Alison Smith: 'John Petts and the Caseg Press', ...

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John Petts; Alison Smith: 'John Petts and the Caseg Press', Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, 1st edition, 127pp, extensively illustrated throughout, 4to (27 x 22cm), original cloth, dust wrapper. The first monograph on John Petts (1914-1991), one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century, covering both his work for the Caseg Press, the private press he founded in Snowdonia in 1937, and for other publishers such as the Golden Cockerel Press; Bruce Rogers: 'Bruce Rogers Selected Letters 1915-1918', Caliban Press, 1988, limited edition, number 155 of 190 copies, handset in Garamont type and printed on Frankfurt cream paper, 5 illustrations, 16 letters (all but 3 previously unpublished) addressed mainly to H.W. Kent, Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell, original quarter tan leather lettered in gilt, Rives paper-covered boards decorated with letter designs, top edge trimmed, others uncut (2)